a new category... what are you reading?
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Here's a suggestion from a fellow blogger... a category where you post what you're presently reading. This is where you can share suggestions and reviews of different genres of reading material -- everything from serious matters to good trash...
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Here's a suggestion from a fellow blogger... a category where you post what you're presently reading. This is where you can share suggestions and reviews of different genres of reading material -- everything from serious matters to good trash...
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A must read! "Coal River" by Michael Shnayerson-Evironmental atrocities in So.WV w/mountaintop-removal mining. Fascinating & complex legal battles by environmentalists vs. King Coal w/heroes & villains. Govt. agencies' roles are shocking..couldn't put it down.
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I'm reading "Memorial Day" by Vince Flynn. It's a novel about terrorists nuking Washington, D.C. and New York. Makes me appreciate a WV hideaway.
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I'm reading "Memorial Day" by Vince Flynn. It's a novel about terrorists nuking Washington, D.C. and New York. Makes me appreciate a WV hideaway.
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sorry........
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Just finished Grisham's AN INNOCENT MAN... non-fiction that is more frightening that much fiction. In the lightweight reading department, I recently read Stephen King's FROM A BUICK 8... it's set in a Western PA State Police barracks and although the story is way, way out there, the author has such an ear for regional dialect, that [because I know many Troopers from PA] it was entertaining to see how King NAILS the speech patterns and attitudes. I like to keep my "books that make me think" collection at Alpine. There's something about the fireplace and the sounds of the lake that goes well with challenging reads. 2 Strong Recommendations: COMMON SENSE, and HOW WE READ AND WHY by Harold Bloom.
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An Innocent Man, is a very good read
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Highly recommend reading "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. It's a telling non-fiction about life of a Somalian girl growing up and experiencing life as a Muslim. Great insights into the way Muslim women are regarded and treated.
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One of the books I am reading is "Decision in Philadelphia, the Constitutional Convention of 1787", by Collier.
This is an easy college level book. It is good in today's environment to be reminded of what care was taken in crafting the Constitution. The Framers would be nonplussed with today's issues such as abortion and the illegal invasion.
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Expand your political knowledge. Read "Dreams of my Father" & "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama.
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I recently read "The Nine" by Jeffrey Toobin. A surprisingly interesting story of the inside world of our more recent and current Supreme Court justices.
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Just finished THE SUMMONS by Grisham and it was OK. Happened to pick up "The Million Pound Bank Note" by Mark Twain. Reading a steady diet of popular literature, I tend to forget the way the masters used the language. Early in the story, the poorly dressed man hands the bill to a haughty salesperson and Twain described the reaction as follows: "He received it with a smile, one of those large smiles which goes all around over, and has folds in it, and wrinkles, and spirals, and looks like the place where you have thrown a brick in a pond; and then in the act of his taking a glimpse of the bill this smile froze solid, and turned yellow, and looked like those wavy, wormy spreads of lava which you find hardened on little levels on the side of Vesuvius." Wow.
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This reply is addressed to the person who liked to read history books: My most recent reading included THE CROSSING OF THE SUEZ (1973) by Lt General EL Shazly, THE WAR OF ATONEMENT-Chiam Herzog (1973), Troublesome Young Men-Olson (about Churchill forcing Chamberlin out of office), The Coldest Winter-David Halberstan, and I am now reading PARTNERS IN COMMAND which is about Marshall & Eisenhower. The next book on my list is A SOLDER'S STORY- OMAR BRADLEY. There is a small group of ALPOA residents (4) who are just getting started in organizing a history book club so if anyone is interested please let me know.
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Read the Coldest Winter. What an eye opener.Totally changed my opinion of MacArthur and General Almond. The book spent a lot of time covering the second division which I was a part of at that time. I learned two signiicant things. We thought the Regimental Commander (Col Freeman)was seriously wounded when he was evacuated. Halberston indicated Almond did not like his cautious strategy and ordered the evacuation. The Colonel wanted to stay since the wounds were not that serious. The other thing I learned that the 23d Inf Regt (commanded by Freeman) retreated a by a route that was not recommended and without serious casualties. The other regiments, the 9th and 38th got caught in a pass known as the gauntlet and suffered a lot of KIAs. A friend I served witn in Korea told me about the book. We both agree it is very accurate and revealing. Recommended reading to learn about the "Forgotten War".
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